Write about your first computer.
There are somethings that you want dearly. Owning a computer, back then was my obsession.
I was hardly 18, when mu obsession with the computers started. When I was a small kid there was a T.V. series called Star Trek which later on influenced many such series to be made in our own language. Then came one movies which highlighted computer and it’s magic, thus, I dreamt of having one. But till my early teens, that was in 1990s when computer was popularised and made available to common public, I had to wait.
When I was doing my senior high school, I asked Papa to let me join some good computer course, back then, computer science was not a subject taught in our school and colleges. So, I opted for pvt. Institute.
While doing this, I started feeling that if I have my own PC at home how nice it would be. So, after completing first 6 months of the course, that is in1996, I requested Papa to buy me one.
But some how, it (the request) was unheard till 2000. Though, I was taken to some computer shops twice or thrice, giving me the impact that we’re about to buy. The result was always negative, as Papa didn’t find eirher the configuration or the company to his liking.
Side by side my computer degrees kept growing every year. Even if anyone in the family had to do some computer related work, I was driven to the nearest cyber cafe and made to do the required work. It was really so tiresome, sitting in those clumsy cabins, wrecking my brain for hours to get the desired result.
When, I was about to complete my 4th and last computer degree, a friend of Papa, who was astrologer also, once told me that my long waited wish is going to be over. At that time I was preparing for getting admitted to University, so o thought this is going to happen.
After 2 days of the encounter with astrologer uncle, one evening Papa took us for a ride and stopped in the computer market, took me to the shop, asked me to tell all the requirements in my PC, and finalise the deal.
1 day later during the day, it was 11.00 A.M. I think, that the door bell rang. I ran to open the door and finally, I got the computer.
I couldn’t believe my eyes, that I had to ask my younger brother to pinch me. His unbothered reply,” You are at your home and not in a some movie scene, where you need such dramatic activities”, made me realise that I was wide awake and it wasn’t a dream.
I could not bother to part from my PC even after 10 years, because it hold so many beautiful memories, incidents and above all I met my love my hubby through that. So, when it started to show signs of ‘dieing’ I was reluctant to let it go. But three years after my marriage, my brother finally sold it out.
So, that’s the whole story of my first and only computer. ❤💗
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